Equality and discrimination

GPhC to spend up to £100k on recruiting new council members in March 2020

The General Pharmaceutical Council will spend up to £100,000 on increasing the diversity of candidates to take up its council positions from 2020.…

London pharmacists to be offered training to support LGBT patients

A scheme to help primary healthcare teams support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people has expanded to London.…

National Association for Women Pharmacists to dissolve at end of 2019

The National Association of Women Pharmacists will close down its operations at the end of 2019.…

Why the newly appointed GPhC board left me with more questions than answers

Elsy Gomez Campos questions the lack of black representation on the GPhC board.…

Ornella Barra: from community pharmacist to one of the world’s leading business women

The co-chief operating officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance discusses her humble beginnings in community pharmacy and how she transformed her pharmaceutical distribution company into a global organisation employing more than 400,000 people.…

Seven women pharmacists entered into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Seven female pharmacists have been added to the latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.…

Study finds gender differences in reporting adverse drug reactions

Women are more likely to report adverse drug reactions to certain drugs than men, research published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology has shown.…

Gender pay gap at LloydsPharmacy sees year-on-year increase

LloydsPharmacy’s male employees continue to earn more than their female colleagues as the company’s gender pay gap saw a 2.5% increase in 2018 compared to 2017.…

Looking at the ‘disproportionate’ number of fitness-to-practise cases between ethnic groups

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How pharmacy schools can better represent minority ethnic students

Pharmacy student Somto Madueke highlights how pharmacy schools can tackle ethnic disparities and support minority ethnic students to succeed.…